Appeal No. 1998-2974
Application No. 08/524,106
Larkey would have suggested one such arrangement. The
reference teaches an inventive “speech recognition apparatus
and method.” Col. 1, ll. 11-12. I agree with the majority
that “Larkey appears to disclose the claimed method steps of
providing an input signal ..., transmitting an output signal
comprising more than one approximation of the input signal,
and confirming one of the approximations ....” Furthermore,
Larkey mentions several advantages of its invention.
Specifically, “a primary object of the invention is to improve
the recognition accuracy in a speech recognition environment.
Other objects of the invention are a dynamic reference pattern
updating mechanism for improving the precision with which
incoming unknown speech can be identified, and providing
reference patterns which better characterize a speaker's
manner of pronouncing a selected word vocabulary.” Col. 1,
ll. 49-56. Because employing Larkey’s speech recognition
apparatus and method in Daudelin’s speech recognition
environment, i.e., its telecommunications network, would have
improved recognition accuracy, improved identification
precision, and better characterized a speaker's manner of
pronunciation, I am persuaded that the prior art as a whole
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